Word: ire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Although the prices of dairy products and basic crops, e.g., wheat, are supported by the Federal Government, drought and falling livestock prices have brought a great outcry from the farm belt. Farm income has been generally falling since 1947, but that fact does not cool the farmer's ire in 1953. Shrill cries of protest have arisen, and they are directed at one man: Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson...
...Powers could not cajole Italy and Yugoslavia into a friendly bargain. To continue to do nothing would be to let the tension increase. The U.S. decided on action, persuaded the British to go along. Their decision was to help Italy's cause and to risk Tito's ire...
Although the Cambridge ticketing drive will center on Harvard. Ready insisted that students were not a special target for police ire. "We're not going to pick on boys because they're Harvard students," he stated. "We will fine anybody--student or citizen--who breaks the regulations...
...Hindi until she was nine. Her father, a wealthy, pro-British lawyer, would allow Indian food to be served only once a week, and was pleased when his daughter got an English nickname, "Nan." Accustomed to the comfortable acceptance of imperial British rule, she showed little of her political ire in those youthful days. "A stylish affair," she wrote after seeing a 1915 Congress party rally. "One wore one's prettiest clothes and had a good time meeting people . . . and going to parties...
...days when "old whisky aboard was half a crown a bottle, and the best tobacco I have ever smoked-you cannot get it now, even in Piccadilly-was three shillings a pound. Somehow we managed. We pulled through. No BBC helped us." But what really stirs his querulous ire is the evidence he sees around him that modern man has let the machine muffle the "daring" of his soul, has sheepishly turned much of his liberty over to government bureaucrats...